Ukrainian researchers and faculty will spend a semester at MIT during the two-year pilot program. | Continue reading
Ukrainian researchers and faculty will spend a semester at MIT during the two-year pilot program. | Continue reading
Professors Adam Martin and Joel Volman explain the genesis, scope, and objectives of the recently launched Task Force on the MIT Undergraduate Academic Program. | Continue reading
Researchers also found that a variant of the protein is not as protective against the bacteria and increases susceptibility to the disease. | Continue reading
Associate Professor Jeehwan Kim is exploring systems that could take over where silicon leaves off. | Continue reading
FeatUp, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, boosts the resolution of any deep network or visual foundation for computer vision systems. | Continue reading
Joining three teams backed by a total of $75 million, MIT researchers will tackle some of cancer’s toughest challenges. | Continue reading
At the MIT Quantum Hackathon, a community tackles quantum computing challenges. | Continue reading
At the 2024 MIT Energy Conference, participants grappled with the key challenges and trends shaping our fight to prevent the worst effects of climate change. | Continue reading
MIT CSAIL postdoc Nauman Dawalatabad explores ethical considerations, challenges in spear-phishing defense, and the optimistic future of AI-created voices across various sectors. | Continue reading
Too much livestock on a given amount of land can lead to carbon losses, but appropriate numbers can actually help sequester the carbon. | Continue reading
Moved by the human devastation and scientific conundrum of Alzheimer’s, William Li seeks to work on therapies for the disease. | Continue reading
Professors Berggren, Campbell, Pollock, and Vaikuntanathan are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching. | Continue reading
A new algorithm can automatically select the best shortcuts for a robot to take on its way to a destination that will reduce the overall travel time while limiting the likelihood that the robot will meet an impassable obstacle. | Continue reading
A new study finds employees underestimate salary levels in their own industry, leading them to spend less time exploring the job market. | Continue reading
MIT mechanical engineering class 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II) transforms students from consumers of knowledge to explorers and innovators. The design intent of 2.679 is to empower students to ‘imagine it, build it,'" says Professor Tonio Buonassisi. | Continue reading
MIT students Madelyn Hoying and Wing Lam (Nicole) Chan were part of Crew 290 at the Mars Desert Research Station. The six-person crew completed a two-week simulation under the name Project MADMEN, an analog of potential Martian search-for-life missions. | Continue reading
Chen Chu explores the global relevance of local floodplain resilience strategies, and brings to the Morningside Academy his unique perspective in political ecology and urban design. | Continue reading
MIT OpenCourseWare is a global model for open sharing in higher education. With more than 5 million subscribers, OpenCourseWare’s YouTube channel inspires millions of learners across the globe to expand their knowledge and develop new skills for free. | Continue reading
In an MIT visit, the endlessly curious Kramer explained how he sampled careers from cook to circus clown before beginning the pursuit of mastery within his craft. | Continue reading
Ken Johnson Jr., director of communications, promotions, and marketing in the MIT Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER), passed away after suffering a stroke. He was 47 years old. | Continue reading
The new GastroShield gel can be sprayed through an endoscope after polyps are removed during colonoscopy, protecting the gut and helping prevent complications from weakened gastrointestinal tissues. | Continue reading
The Northeast Microelectronics Internship Program for first- and second-year college students looks to expand its reach, with thanks to new funding from the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub. The program is an initiative of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories. | Continue reading
MIT researchers found a way to screen cancer-linked gene mutations much more easily and quickly than existing approaches, using a variant of CRISPR genome-editing known as prime editing. | Continue reading
MIT spinout AgZen developed a system for feedback-optimized spraying that can help farmers spray more efficiently and effectively, using fewer chemicals overall. | Continue reading
Machine-learning software called tomoDRGN allows scientists to model shapeshifting proteins in their native environment. The work is led by Barrett Powell and Joey Davis of the MIT Department of Biology. | Continue reading
An MIT sensor can detect “forever chemicals” known as PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in drinking water. PFAS are found in many consumer products and are linked to cancer and other health problems. | Continue reading
An MIT study of polyglots found the brain’s language network responds more strongly when hearing languages a speaker is more proficient in — and much more weakly to the speaker’s native language. | Continue reading
A dataset of transformed images can be used to effectively simulate peripheral vision in a machine-learning model, improving the performance of these models on detecting and recognizing objects that are off to the side or in the corner of a scene. | Continue reading
An MIT study finds stimulating a key brain rhythm with light and sound increases peptide release from interneurons, driving clearance of an Alzheimer’s protein via the brain’s glymphatic system. | Continue reading
The 4D Knit Dress developed by MIT's Self-Assembly Lab combines several technologies — heat-activated yarns, computerized knitting; robotic activation — to create a garment that is sculpted to create a personalized fit and style. | Continue reading
MIT alumni Marcos Berríos, Christina Birch, and Christopher Williams have graduated from NASA astronaut training and are eligible for flight assignments. They encourage MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class. | Continue reading
MIT researchers discovered a brain circuit that drives vocalization and ensures that you talk only when you breathe out, and stop talking when you breathe in. This circuit is under control of a brainstem region called the pre-Bötzinger complex. | Continue reading
A new safety-check technique can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a planned robot motion will not result in a collision. The method can generate a proof in seconds and does so in a way that can be easily verified by a human. | Continue reading
Professor Ernest Fraenkel has decoded fundamental aspects of Huntington’s disease and glioblastoma, and is now using computation to better understand amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. | Continue reading
A noninvasive treatment may help to counter “chemo brain” impairment often seen in chemotherapy patients: Exposure to light and sound with a frequency of 40 hertz protected brain cells from chemotherapy-induced damage in mice, MIT researchers found. | Continue reading
A type of nanoparticle called a metal organic framework (MOF) could be used to deliver vaccines and act as an adjuvant. MIT researchers find these particles provoke a strong immune response by activating the innate immune system through cell proteins called toll-like receptors. | Continue reading
Two MIT Libraries exhibits explore the history of women at MIT. One examines women in biology, bioengineering, chemistry, and chemical engineering; the other identifies the women who built the core rope memory and magnetic core memory for the Apollo Guidance Computer. | Continue reading
Nicole McGaa, an MIT senior majoring in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, seeks to make spaceflight easier and safer for the human body. | Continue reading
A new MIT Bootcamps hybrid program brings a multidisciplinary approach to tackling substance use disorder through biomedical device innovation. | Continue reading
MIT spinout DataCebo helps companies bolster their datasets by creating synthetic data that mimic the real thing. | Continue reading
More than 100 members of the MIT community attended Sustainability Connect, a yearly forum that offers an inside look at this transformative and comprehensive work that is the foundation for MIT’s climate and sustainability leadership on campus. | Continue reading
MIT's School of Science recognized Sarthak Chandra, Michal Fux, Andrew Savinov, Ho Fung Cheng, Gabi Wenzel, Yu-An Zhang, Wouter Van de Pontseele, Alexander Shvonski, and David Stoppel with 2024 Infinite Expansion Awards. | Continue reading
The human brain appears biased toward hearing and producing rhythms with simple integer ratios, but the favored ratios can vary greatly between different societies, according to a 15-country study led by MIT researchers. | Continue reading
A comprehensive study of high-temperature superconducting magnets built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems confirms they meet requirements for an economic, compact fusion power plant. | Continue reading
MIT geologists determined the original orientation of many of the Mars bedrock samples collected by the Perseverance rover. The findings can give scientists clues to the conditions in which the rocks originally formed. | Continue reading
MIT undergraduates win all five top spots for the fourth year in a row and capture the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize. | Continue reading
MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering opened their labs to first-year students looking to gain research experience and collaborate with current graduate students and postdocs. | Continue reading